You Took An Oath

I will try not to simply use this blog to link to other blogs and let other people do all the writing.  I'd like to always have good ideas and write original stuff, but nobody is that good all the time.  So, I will proudly link to and highly recommend that you go read this post, which was so good that it is a requested repost.

Assuming that you either went and read it, or that you will read it when you leave here, let me say that it gives me no joy to have to think of the people who carry guns and badges as just a smarter class of criminal because they just figured out that if they did what was necessary to get the badges, they could get away with a lot of stuff.

I'm sure that there are still some good police in various places, but I've personally seen enough up close and personal to know that more than half of the LEOs out there, especially in the big "blue" cities share the following traits:

1. They see themselves not as civilian peace officers, but as some kind of paramilitary organization and the rest of us are "civilians."  They see themselves as a separate and distinct class of people.
2.  The oath they took to uphold the Constitution, or the law, or whatever they take an oath to, is nothing but a formality of getting the job.  You are either the predator or the prey.
3. Everything is political, and if you have to play politics to get ahead, and that means schmoozing whoever you have to, then so be it.
4. Carrying out orders and doing what it takes to get promoted is far more important than supporting and defending the Constitution and protecting the public from an overreaching and tyrannical government.

If you are one of the good cops, you know it's true as well and it grieves you as well.  Maybe you stay in the profession because if all of the good guys abandon it, then only the rotten SOBs will have the badges and superior firepower.  Maybe you even have to keep quiet about how you really think because it wouldn't be safe to speak your mind.  If that's the case, I pray for you and your safety.

But the ones who fit the profile that I numbered above are in it for the adrenaline rush and the power trip and think that all of the rest of us should just shut up and be thankful that they are keeping the streets safe.  "You don't need a gun, that's what we are here for."

Oath Keepers

In the past, I've met young men who aspired to become law enforcement officers.  My first question to them was always this:  "If you were given an order to go house-to-house, confiscating weapons from people, would you follow it?"

If they answered in the affirmative, I would point out that the Constitution made that an illegal act.  I would further point out that people who join the military, both officers and enlisted take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution.  Not higher ranking officers or politicians. Further, that if the politicians were to "pass a law" that is in direct conflict with the Constitution, such a law would be null and void.

Sadly, I had three young men that still told me that they would obey any order given them.  This is why you need to know about this organization, Oath Keepers.  You need to go join them as a citizen associate.  You need to ask your local LEO if he/she is a member, and if not, why not.  If they tell you that they will obey any order given them, you need to explain to them about the Nazi's and the trial at Nuremberg.  Then you need to be afraid, and you need to keep an eye on that LEO.